Enjoy Life

Knowing where you are and where you are going improves the quality of your life no matter what your age. What keeps us up at night is not having a clear picture of our purpose. To give you a clear picture, it is helpful to develop a family mission, with each member developing their own goal list. This will help your family stay on the same page and to help each family member reach his or her potential.

An example of people not knowing each other's goals can be seen every day at Disney World. It is a great place to observe human behavior.

One family goal was to take a vacation to Disney World. After they arrived, they soon discovered that each of them had different plans. Dad wanted to golf, Mom wanted to rest and the kid's just wanted to have fun on the rides. Everyone got frustrated and the trip wasn't fun for any of them.

Had the family met beforehand. it would have been easy to avoid this situation. They could have discussed each family member's ideas and planned the trip to make sure everybody got what they wanted out of the trip. This takes some time up front, but is well worth it in the long run.

Sharing you goals helps others to give input in reaching our goals. Once there was a boy who early on wanted to play golf in college at a Division One school. Going to college wasn't as important as playing golf. His family helped him to achieve this goal, first by sending him to golf school at a university campus. One of the lectures he had to attend was about what you needed to attend these types of schools academically. That was an eye-opener for the young man but it was great because he understood it and he was able to listen to someone other than his parents. Then his siblings attend tournaments with him, cheering him on in good and bad times. He made it to a great university, played golf for a year but graduated in four.

Goals are a blessing and a curse. They are a lot of hard work but it feels great when we accomplish them. Realizing your potential every day is one of the great satisfactions of life.